pg did originally call it 'startup news' but i don't think you have standing to accuse him of 'appropriating' the term 'hacker' until you've hacked together something of comparable significance to on lisp or viaweb

So what? Free software was literally created in reaction to copyright protections getting extended to software. They make no sense in a world without copyright.

By the way, it would also kill proprietary software as a concept. Source code leak? It's no longer a crime to use it. We'd never have to read licensing nonsense ever again.

Why would that be? Huge amount of OSS is released under fully permissive licenses.

Free and open source software licenses are redundant in a world where copyright and intellectual property laws don't exist, and no form of media (including software) can legally be owned by anyone.

Participants on a site called Hacker News.